Comments on: How to Maximize Your Entertainment Dollar

By: FlyFisher

FlyFisher — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 01:17:05 +0000

Board games are an awesome cheap way to spend your time. Friends and family interaction and SO cheap for the amount of time you play.

By: cdiver

cdiver — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:52:32 +0000

Our family plays many board games that were hand downs from our parents.

By: cdiver

cdiver — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:48:19 +0000

Thrift stores are great places to buy board games as well.

By: echidnina

echidnina — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:32:08 +0000

I’m a knitter, which is not necessarily a cheap hobby – people are always aghast when I tell them it costs me upwards of $15 for the yarn to knit a pair of socks!

But I see it as a GREAT value – I get 20 hours or more of relaxing time that I really enjoy, and at the end of it, I get a pretty pair of socks that I can take pride in To me, I’m not paying $15 for a pair of socks. I’m paying dimes on the hour to entertain myself, and getting a free pair of socks out of it too!

By: echidnina

echidnina — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:30:04 +0000

A couple bottles of liquor makes that game exponentially more fun… but also more expensive, of course.

By: echidnina

echidnina — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:29:06 +0000

My local library loans out DVDs for free (with steep late fees). The one in my folks’ town rents them for a couple bucks per movie.

By: echidnina

echidnina — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:27:47 +0000

I play flash games on a site called Kongregate… They have a ton of games, and a lot of them are really high-quality. All my consoles are way outdated, and whenever I get a gaming itch I head over there to play RPGs/Strategy/Sim/puzzle/whatever games for free

By: echidnina

echidnina — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:26:19 +0000

I love Librivox! I listen to audiobooks while knitting, walking to school or riding the bus. With Librivox, I’ve had the chance to ‘read’ a lot of classics I never would have picked up otherwise – like Dracula or The Brothers Karamazov.

By: moro

moro — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:19:09 +0000

The games getting worse all the time, there are only shooters and sportgames. In this context you pay the same or even more for an inferior entertainment product

By: Paige

Paige — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:20:43 +0000

I was surprised to see that Goodwill and/or thrift stores were only mentioned once. Aside from renting books at the library, thrift stores are the best place to buy them. Our Goodwill bookstore is awesome! They have movies, music, and books. All of the books are organized and they are usually 2.99 (for hardcover) and under. Thrift stores are also the best place to buy games, almost all of our games have come from them and I never pay more than $3. That is maximizing your entertainment budget.

By: fishboyridesagain

fishboyridesagain — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:49:50 +0000

I often use a per hour or per use strategy when analyzing many things I may consider buying.

The 65¢ snack at the vending machine really doesn’t bring that much satisfaction to hunger or to my taste buds (low utility), compared to the use I’m going to get out of those new running shoes. I am going to wear those shoes until they are falling apart: first as my runners and then around the house as my grubby shoes for house and yardwork once their cushioning isn’t good enough for running.

If the shoes are put together well, I’ll get a lot from my dollar.

By: hoht

hoht — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:38:21 +0000

Playing Dirty Minds with a boys vs. girls match. Now all that cost is chips & dip and a box of tissues.

By: Kosmo @ The Casual Observer

Kosmo @ The Casual Observer — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:10:39 +0000

I’ll throw this one out there – writing.

At the most basic level, you need a writing instrument and some paper. $5 worth of pens and notebooks will keep you going for a long, long time.

I’m maximizing the crap out of my entertainment value from writing, with my blog writing and a start on a novel (I also write weekly fiction pieces on the blog).

And once you’re done, you have a product that can (sometimes) entertain others.

By: Kosmo @ The Casual Observer

Kosmo @ The Casual Observer — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:42:37 +0000

Probably because everyone has seen the movie and knows how it ends.

By: kosmo @ The Casual Observer

kosmo @ The Casual Observer — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:17:23 +0000

I loved playing that game on the Apple IIe back in the day.

You could cheat, though. When you sold items, it didn’t verify quantity. If you had 3 wagon wheels, you could sell 10 (or 100m 1000, etc.). It would reduce your supply of the item to 0 (not to the negative, just to zero) and dump cash in your account.

This was my first exposure to overflow errors. Selling 9999999999999999999 items could cause problems